What do you like better knights or bishops?

My personal preference is the Knight (reminds me of "King Arthur the Knights of the Round Table")...but in terms of play, it depends on the position. I usually play closed games, and trade a weak Bishop for a Knight, to obtain a slight advantage. The Bishop is obviously of greater value in the end game, where the position is open...but sometimes he can be a liability, if your opponent keeps his pieces on the opposite colour.

...Knights or Bishops?...just flip a coin.

i don't mind exchanging a B for a N in certain situations: to blow the king cover or break the pawn phalanx for example but i love bishops when there pointin at da king

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this is like tyranny. Pawns should be the best. Why don't they have the power to rise against the tyranny of knights, bishops, queens, and kings, and make the nation a democracy.

I like them both, although there's nothing better than a untouchable knight on an outpost

Chess became even more intriguing to me when I first learned about the outpost. 

Yep.. Checkmate

Alright. Now that that whole bundle of nonsense is over, we can move on to more important questions...

If this thread is boring to you, go to the many other threads.  Let those of us that find this entertaining have our fun. 

Bishops vs. knights...

It really depends on the position but if you take into consideration the expense of stable fees, bishops all the way.

GM Bojkov said in his videos that if  after a series of trades you have the couples

Q+N or R+B (and B+B of course) you have an advantage in the endgame but it's difficult to quantify ...

I realize you had chess on your mind, but my site name is Crosspinner.  I saw crosspin in a chess book I have, but I cannot remember which book.  I have never seen that word in any other chess book.  Nor I have ever been able to put an opponent in a crosspin.

re: the first diagram - Poor Bishop...he's lost 4 sqr possibilities due to the well placed N

Both are draws. So I guess neither is better :p

Btw I don't care much whether I have a bishop or a knight I just throw them in the general direction of my opponent's king

No apology needed.  If you find more about crosspin, let us know.  I hope I can find that book with it in it.  I read the definition in the glossary. Usually, the words in a glossary are used somewhere in the book, so if I can find that book I may be able to find more about it.

The Bishops have lasers and the knights fire rays.

Lasers versus rays comparison.

I found the book with crosspin in it.  It was not in the book I thought that it was.  It is in Pandolfini's Chess Challenges in the glossary. 

"You create a CROSSPIN when you nullify a pin against you by pinning the enemy attacker."

Counterpin

That would do, too.